Living Things

Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir G Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don’t go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living on a campsite where a general sense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment capitalism immigration and the mass production of living things all interwoven with the protagonist’s thoughts on literature and the nature of storytelling. A genre-bending and dystopian eco-thriller Living Things is a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralding an exciting new voice in international fiction.